Table of contents : Introduction....Pages 1-18 Duality, Optimality, and Degeneracy....Pages 21-39 The Central Path....Pages 41-59 Self-Dual Embeddings....Pages 61-73 The Primal Logarithmic Barrier Method....Pages 75-93 Primal-Dual Affine-Scaling Methods....Pages 95-113 Primal-Dual Path-Following Methods....Pages 115-131 Primal-Dual Potential Reduction Methods....Pages 133-146 Convex Quadratic Approximation....Pages 149-155 The Lovász ϑ-Function....Pages 157-167 Graph Coulouring and the Max- K -Cut Problem....Pages 169-185 The Stability Number of a Graph and Standard Quadratic Optimization....Pages 187-209 The Satisfiability Problem....Pages 211-228